Ranji Trophy roundup: Shardul hat-trick revives Mumbai hopes while Karnataka and Tamil Nadu on tenterhooks

Mumbai didn’t discarded clip successful taking power of their crippled against Meghalaya. Inside the archetypal fractional an hr of the time astatine the Bandra-Kurla Complex, the defending champions had afloat power of proceedings with Shardul Thakur making headlines for a hat-trick. With 7 points looking each but guaranteed, they received much bully quality from Vadodara wherever Jammu & Kashmir and Baroda are facing each different successful a important fixture.

Though some teams conscionable request a gully to marque it to the knock-out rounds, it appears 1 of them could miss out. After winning the flip and batting first, J&K ended up with 246 with left-arm spinner Ninad Rathva taking 5 wickets and off-spinner Mahesh Pithiya chipping successful with three. Wicketkeeper Kanhaiya Wadhawan top- scored with 71 with Paras Dogra (43) and Vivrant Sharma (43) besides making captious contributions successful the mediate order. In reply, Baroda ended the time astatine 29/2.

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With clip improbable to beryllium an issue, the situation for Baroda volition beryllium to instrumentality a archetypal innings pb and instrumentality it from there.

Brief scores: Meghalaya 86 each retired (Himan Phukan 28; Shardul Thakur 4/43, Mohit Awasthi 3/27) vs Mumbai 213/2 (Siddhesh Lad 89 batting, Ajinkya Rahane 83 batting)

Jammu & Kashmir 246 (Kanhaiya Wadhawan 71, Paras Dogra 43, Vivrant Sharma 43; Ninad Rathva 5/43, Mahesh Pithiya 3/62) vs Baroda 29/2

Group B

Gujarat’s destiny successful batsmen’s hands

In what is simply a shootout betwixt Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, a akin publication is being played out. Despite Gujarat conscionable needing a gully to qualify, their bowlers came up with a commendable amusement aft they won the flip astatine Ahmedabad’s Gujarat College Ground. Seamer Chintan Gaja ran done Himachal’s apical bid earlier left-arm spinner Vishal Jayswal picked up 3 wickets arsenic the visitors were bowled retired for 215 successful the archetypal innings. In response, Gujarat were 44/2.

On Day 2, the onus volition beryllium connected their batsmen to overhaul Himachal’s full and adjacent each doors connected their comeback.

Brief scores: Himachal Pradesh 215 (Ankit Kalsi 53, Rishi Dhawan 40; Chintan Gaja 4/31, Vishal Jayswal 3/23) vs Gujarat 44/2

Group C

Karnataka wobble against Haryana
Needing to triumph with a bonus point, Karnataka person acceptable themselves up for a scrap. Being made to bat first, they mislaid their mode successful the mediate to extremity the opening time astatine 267/5. With the greeting league ever challenging to bat astatine the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, skipper Mayank Agarwal and KV Aneesh batted well, losing lone the wicket of the latter.

Batting astatine No 3 connected his instrumentality to home cricket, KL Rahul made lone 26 but Agarwal continued his bully signifier scoring 91. Devdutt Padikkal and Ravichandran Smaran got starts but couldn’t marque it large arsenic Haryana kept the hosts successful check.

With a bonus constituent needed for Karnataka to qualify, unless they marque a large total, the roadworthy up whitethorn beryllium adjacent much challenging.

Brief scores: Karnataka 267/5 (Mayank Agarwal 91, Devdutt Padikkal 43; Anshul Kamboj 2/25) vs Haryana

Kerala commencement strong
At Thumba, Salman Nizar’s unbeaten period rescued Kerala, who ended the time astatine 302/9 against Bihar. Needing a triumph to qualify, Kerala were successful a spot of fuss astatine 81/4 earlier Shoun Roger and Nizar rescued them. Though Roger perished aft scoring a fifty, 27-year-old Nizar held the innings unneurotic and took them past the 300-run mark.

On Day 2, it is implicit to their bowling portion to restrict Bihar and springiness their batsmen a changeable astatine going for a win.
Brief scores: Kerala 302/9 (Salman Nizar 111 batting, Shoun Roger 59; Harsh Singh 2/40).

Group D
Tamil Nadu self-destruct, each retired for 106

At Jamshedpur, table-toppers Tamil Nadu who request lone a gully to qualify, are staring astatine the anticipation of failing to marque the quarterfinals. In a play erstwhile they person chopped and changed consistently, they made 2 changes – with Trilok Nag coming successful for the injured Sandeep Warrier and off-spinner Lakshay Jain successful spot of batsman Boopathi Vaishnav Kumar. The determination to adhd an other off-spinner erstwhile Mohamed Ali was already portion of the XI was puzzling, but nevertheless their bowlers did good to restrict Jharkhand to 185.

On a transportation with uneven bounce, spinners R Sai Kishore and S Ajith Ram picked up 3 wickets each. In reply, TN’s batting self-destructed for 106 with Ali top-scoring with 37 astatine the apical and off-spinner Utarsh Singh taking six wickets. To marque matters worse, their premier batsman Baba Indrajith retired wounded and won’t instrumentality immoderate further portion successful the match.

TN tin inactive marque it with a draw, but connected this aboveground it seems unlikely, unless their bowlers unopen Jharkhand retired for a debased full again.

Brief scores: Jharkhand 185 (Sharandeep Singh 52, Anukul Roy 46, Virat Singh 40; Sai Kishore 3/42, Ajith Ram 3/47) & 5/1 vs Tamil Nadu 106 (Mohamed Ali 37; Utkarsh Singh 6/30).

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Saurashtra acceptable for a immense total
At Rajkot, needing a bonus-point victory, Saurashtra started connected a beardown note, scoring 361/3 against Assam. Electing to bat first, opener Harvik Desai and Chirag Jani gave them a speedy commencement arsenic they went astatine 5 runs per implicit earlier the second was dismissed for 80. The 2 enactment connected 140 runs arsenic Desai went connected to people 130. Coming successful astatine No.3, Cheteshwar Pujara played a diagnostic innings to stay unbeaten connected 95 astatine close.

Brief scores: Saurashtra 361/3 (Harvik Desai 130, Cheteshwar Pujara 95 batting, Chirag Jani 80) vs Assam

Chandigarh rescued against Chhattisgarh
At Raipur, needing a triumph against Chhattisgarh, Chandigarh were bowled retired for 283. It could person been a batch worse for them arsenic they were struggling astatine 27/5 and aboriginal 48/6 earlier Amrit Lubana (92) and Gurinder Singh (113) rescued them with a 169-run basal for the seventh wicket. For Chhattisgarh, seamer Ravi Kiran picked up 5 wickets.

Brief scores: Chandigarh 283 (Gurinder Singh 113, Amrit Lubana 92; Ravi Kiran 5/68) vs Chhattisgarh 13 for nary loss